Friday, August 15, 2014

Death, riots and looting...Yep sounds like Middle America

Dear Ferguson, Missouri residents,

A tragedy occurred last Saturday in a small community
outside of St. Louis. Now it’s not a tragedy because Michael Brown is black, a
child and was unarmed when he died like the newswires and social media
continues to report on. It’s a tragedy because someone lost their life. There
are always two sides to every story in life and this is no different. When the incident
took place people were quick to blame law enforcement with the cries of police
brutality and the murder of an innocent citizen along with justice must be
served. A picture was carefully painted to us that Michael Brown was an innocent
black child walking home with a friend and was gunned down in cold blood by a
white police officer in plain daylight. But wait….You’re telling me there is
more to this story??? You don’t say??? Recent information has now surfaced that
Michael Brown and his friend were suspects in a strong-armed robbery that had
just taking place at a convenient store. There is also evidence to suggest that
there was a confrontation between Mr. Brown and the officer and a struggle for
the policeman’s gun. His current state was not the one of the child that is
provided to you by the media. He was an 18 year old man who weighed close to
three bills. So what side do you believe? I’m putting my money on is the untold
story. We are too quick to judge and take sides as a society. Just because an
idiot (Note to people reading my literature for the first time, I love that
word) of Al Sharpton’s stature gets on a soap box every time there is a
headline that involves the words “black”, “racism” and “exposure” do you need
to fall in line with his beliefs. Let the process play out and form an opinion
once all the facts are presented to you. The reaction to the events that took
place I will never understand. Why do people find it necessary to riot, burn
and loot the place you call home? It doesn’t show an act of solidarity coming
together as a community, it demonstrates to the world that you are an uncivilized
heathen or in better terms an idiot. Please tell me how does stealing TV’s,
booze, Nikes, etc. and then setting fire to a building bring Michael Brown back???...It
doesn’t. This followed by the response of tear gas and heavily armed officers
in riot gear and armored vehicles had me doing a double take to make sure I was
still living in America. When I think of the Midwest, corn, factories and bad
football come to mind not Beirut or Baghdad. At the end of the day a life was
lost which by any means is sad. Let’s just remember that we live in a country where
we are innocent until proven guilty or have we all been quick to forget about
that fact…..

PS. Happy Friday peeps, I drank Bud Light last night so
pardon me on the briefness of this post and remember….Everybody has soul, it’s
the ones who dance that are special.

Life according to me:

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